The following explains what each file reads in and what it creates, in order of how one needs to run it.

clean_data: READS in ANES timeseries CDF and ANES 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 rda data (from https://github.com/jamesmartherus/anesr); CREATES df_7220 and df_all RDS files
create_tables_and_graphs: READS in df_all; CREATES Figure 1 (ideo_party_cor), Figure 3 (lc_ideo), Figure 4 (g_ideo_libcon_me1), Table 2 (lm_main_regs.html), Table 3 (predict_famscore.html)
rnr_create_tables_and_graphs: READS in df_all; CREATES Figure 2 (famscores_hist_pooled), Table 1 (overall_ideopar_cor_tab.html)